Heel



WQH. NUTT Mrch 15, i932.

HEEL

File oct'. 1, 1929 Patented Mar. 15, 1932 UNITED STATES i PATENT orpi-TICE WLLIAM H. NUTT, OF BEVERLY, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO' UNITED SHOE MA- CHINERY CORPORATION, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, CORPORATION F NEW JERSEY HEEL Application filed October i1, 1929. Serial No. 396,566.

This invention relates to improvements in heels. The invention is herein disclosed in relation to a wooden Cuban heel having a groove in its breast face and having upon its l rear, side and breast surfaces a one-piece covering the opposite lateral margins of which are tucked into the groove.

A heel of the type above referred to is 'disclosed in United States Letters Patent No.

1,718,177, granted June 18, 1929, on my application. One object of the present invention is to improve the constructionof the body portion of a heel of this type so as to facilitate the operation of applying the covering thereto and to impart a distinctive and artistic appearance to the finished heel.

With this object in view a feature of the invention consists in a heel having a groove in the middle of its breast face extending heightwise of the heel, the groove having its opposite side walls Haring outwardly substantially from the bottom of the groove in symmetrically disposed curves to facilitate the tucking into the groove ofmeetingportions of a covering for the heel, the surfaces defining the opposite side walls of the groovebeingconvexly curved and blending with the adjacent portions of the breast surface of the heel and the width of the groove at its outermost portion being approximately equal to the depth of the groove. The improved heel is herein shown as being provided with a cover for its rear, side and breast surfaces, having man ginal portions tucked into the groove with their outer surfaces meeting to form a tight joint at the bottom portion only of the groove. As illustrated, also, the breast surfaces at opposite sides of the groove are concave widthwise of the heel breast and blend with the curves of the side walls of the groove to form reversely curved surfaces extending outwardly from the opposite sides of the bottom of the groove to the lateral edges of the heel breast.

45 The invention will be explained with reference to the accompanying drawings, in

which Y Fig. lis a perspective view of an uncovered heel constructed in accordance with the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the heel;

Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the heel as it appears after being covered;

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the covered heel; and

Fig. 5 is across-sectional view of the heel illustrating themanner in Vwhich the oppositeV end portions of a one-piece covering are overlapped above the therein. 1

groove before being tucked l l "1 B0 i.

Referring to the drawings,v there is shown at 10 a wooden Cuban heel having a slightlyv concave breast surface 12 and a lgroove'f14I extending heightwisefofA thegheel alongfthe middle of the `heel breast for Ithe purpose of receiving marginal portions vof, a covering to be applied to the heel. In order to facilitate the insertion or tucking ofthe marginalfpor'- tions of the heel covering into the groove 14,4

and in order to improve the` appearance of the breast of the covered`heel,.the vgrove 14v is formed withsymmeftrical outwardly ilaring side walls 16 which are convexly curved in cross-section and which merge gradually` into the concave cross-sectional curvature 'of 75 the-portions of the breast surface at oppo-y site sides of the groove.

The heel 10 is shown, in Figs. 3 and 4, as,

tendency for the cover margins to bind vorv 1 become wedged within the mouth or entrance to the groove? As illustrated in'Fig 5, it is;

convenient to overlap both end portions of the cover 18 above the groove and thereafter to tuck these overlapped cover margins into the groove at the same time bya single operation of a tucking implement such as the tucking blade `2O. Such a ing operation is rendered practicable by reason of the novel cross-sectional shapeof the groove 14 which permits both cover margins to enterr the grooveati the same time without binding or wedging therein. `Moreover,`by tucking both margins of the cover into the groove simultaneously a very substantial saving of time is effected.

After being covered as above described the heel 10 appears as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. It will be noted that on account Jof the Vconvex cross-sectional curvature of the side walls of the groove and the concave cross-sectional curvature of the remaining portions of the breast surface at yopposite sides of the groove, the covered surface extending from each lateral breast corner substantially tothe bottom of the groove 14 has a cross-sectional contour in the form of a reverse curve. This reversely curved cross-sectional formation of the heel breast .at leach side of the central groove produces .not only -a stylish and -distinctively ornamental effect but, as hereinbefore setfforth, it greatly facilitates vthe opera- Y gration of tucking the cover margins into `the groove. Moreover, because of the tapering form ation of the' groove the opposite end portions of the -.coverwhich -overlie lthe flaring side-'walls lG of the .groove vare held in meeting relation at the bottom portion of the groove where they are wedged -or crowded together so that a tig-ht'joint is formed at the meeting ends. Y v

Having `described my invention, what I Jcl-aim Yas new and desire to secure by `Letters Patentfof the United StateSiS:

1, A heel having a `groove inthe middle of its vbreast fac-e extending heightwise of the heel, the-groove having its oppositeside walls flaringoutwardly substantially from fthe bottom of the groove in symmetrically disposed curves .to facilitate the tucking into the groove-of meeting yportions of a covering Vfor -the heel, the surfaces defining the opposite 4sifde Walls of the groove being conveXly curved and blending with the vadjacent portions of the breast surface lof the heel and Vthe width of vthe groove at its. outermost portion' being approximately equal to the `depth l'of the groove.

2. A heel hav-ing .al groove located in the middde of its `breast and vextending heightwise thereof, the surfaces defini-ng lthe opposite sidewalls of :the groove being convex fdepthwiseo-fthe groove and Aflaring outwardly substantially from the bottom rof the groove in symmetrically disposed 'curves blending with the heel .breast surfaces-at opposite sides of the groove and the width of thegroove at its @outermost portion being approXimately-equalto the depth ofthe groove,

and 1a cover for the rear, side and breast sur- I faces ofthe heel having marginal portions tucked into said groove with their outer surfaces meet-ingto form va tight joint at the bottom portion only of the groove.

3. A heel having :a groove in the middle ofV its breast extending heightwise of the heeLand-:a cover for the rear, side and breast surfaces of the heel :having marginal porposite sides of the groove being concave widthwise of *the lheel lbreast and blending with the curves ofthe side walls of the groove to form reversely curved surfaces extending outwardly from opposite sides of the bottom of the groove to the lateral edges of the heel breast.

In testimony whereof I have signed' my name to thisspecification. l

WILLIAM H.. Nori; 

